.TH LBER_MEMORY 3 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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.SH NAME
ber_memalloc, ber_memcalloc, ber_memrealloc, ber_memfree, ber_memvfree \- OpenLDAP LBER memory allocators
.SH LIBRARY
OpenLDAP LBER (liblber, \-llber)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <lber.h>
.LP
.BI "void *ber_memalloc(ber_len_t " bytes ");"
.LP
.BI "void *ber_memcalloc(ber_len_t " nelems ", ber_len_t " bytes ");"
.LP
.BI "void *ber_memrealloc(void *" ptr ", ber_len_t " bytes ");"
.LP
.BI "void ber_memfree(void *" ptr ");"
.LP
.BI "void ber_memvfree(void **" vec ");"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
These routines are used to allocate/deallocate memory used/returned
by the Lightweight BER library as required by
.BR lber-encode (3)
and
.BR lber-decode (3).
.BR ber_memalloc (),
.BR ber_memcalloc (),
.BR ber_memrealloc (),
and
.BR ber_memfree ()
are used exactly like the standard
.BR malloc (3),
.BR calloc (3),
.BR realloc (3),
and
.BR free (3)
routines, respectively.  The
.BR ber_memvfree ()
routine is used to free a dynamically allocated array of pointers to
arbitrary dynamically allocated objects.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR lber-decode (3),
.BR lber-encode (3),
.BR lber-types (3)
.LP
.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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